{"id":3,"date":"2008-10-24T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:29:09","slug":"travel-tip-of-the-week-bubble-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/travel-tip-of-the-week-bubble-wrap","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tip of the Week: Bubble Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every Wednesday,<em> Explorations<\/em> will offer all you inveterate travelers a travel tip from one of our expert Program Consultants.\u00a0 This week&#8217;s travel tip is from Julie Castanino, and it&#8217;s a good one for all you knick-knack, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/gewgaw\" target=\"_blank\">gew-gaw<\/a>, and curio buyers out there&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Got a bit of extra room in your suitcase or carry on?\u00a0 Pack some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaektech.com\/puppy_notes\/uploaded_images\/dude_bubblewrap-722047.jpg\">bubble wrap<\/a>.\u00a0 That way if you buy ceramics or wine you can wrap it up safely for the trek home. A tradition I began when I first started traveling was to buy a ceramic breakfast bowl from each country that I visit.\u00a0 So far, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/seville-bowl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/italy-bowl-top.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/prague-bowl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Czech Republic<\/a>.\u00a0 And since I&#8217;ve been wrapping them in bubble wrap for the return journey, not a one has been scratched.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks, bubble wrap!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday, Explorations will offer all you inveterate travelers a travel tip from one of our expert Program Consultants.\u00a0 This week&#8217;s travel tip is from Julie Castanino, and it&#8217;s a good one for all you knick-knack, gew-gaw, and curio buyers out there&#8230; Got a bit of extra room in your suitcase or carry on?\u00a0 Pack <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/travel-tip-of-the-week-bubble-wrap\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[14,12],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-bubble-wrap","tag-travel-tips","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}